J Cooper Photography

It’s just one day a week.  But the house was awfully quiet.  I did 4 loads of laundry, primed a bookcase, edited photos, did some store returns, and took Miss Middle to violin lessons.  Quite productive.  But I still missed him.  Until we got home and he crawled off the toilet, locked the bathroom door, and pooped on the floor.  Yeah.  Then I was wishing for school tomorrow

Here he is in his obligatory “in front of the church fountain” pose.  This is a MUST. I tried to get him to hold his cute elephant lunch box.  But he said it was heavy.  I’d have slung his cute new backpack over his shoulders except I forgot to buy him a cute backpack (realized that at 6:30 this morning) so he took a Macy’s tote bag.  It’s such a drag to be #3

This is me trying to get him to smile at the stranger woman who was nice enough to offer to take our photos together.

I have to say I was pretty proud of him.  He didn’t cry at all.  He was actually somewhat put out that I wouldn’t just “leave already” and finally just turned his back to me and walked over to the puzzle table.  So what did I do?  Follow him of course (and with camera in tow).

I have to brag a bit about his insanely serious Puzzle Skilz.  This kid has some sort of abnormal puzzle fixation.  He can whip out our alphabet puzzle in 30 seconds flat.  So I pulled out our USA map puzzle to stump him.  He just laughed at me and scrambled to put the states back in place as quickly as he could (and it was fast).  I think he’s gonna be a Puzzler.  Too bad that’s not an Olympic sport.  Or a lucrative job.

Watch out little man.  Tomorrow I’m bringing out the 500 piece ocean life jigsaw and I’m gonna show you how it’s done.

Happy School little buddy.